| Course Title: Advanced Topics: 'Luminous Darkness: African American Social Thought After DuBois' |
| Start Date: 01/24/2022 End Date: 05/09/2022 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2022 |
| Description: Examines the causes of and proposed solutions to 'the Negro problem' in post-Civil War American social thought and public policy. Begins with the life, work, and legacies of DuBois. Drawing on domestic and diasporic fictional and nonfictional depictions of black life in the 'DuBoisian century' the course considers different responses to his 1903 question, 'How does it feel to be a problem?' The course examines the development and contemporary status of black modernity and postmodernity in the writings of Robinson, Smith, Davis, Ransby, YamahttaTaylor, and others. Our focus on DuBoisian thought culminates in a careful examination of the emergence of racial capitalism in the 21st century. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Lucas Wilson | 413-538-2432 | lbwilson@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/24/2022 - 05/09/2022 | Seminar | Monday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 102 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits in Africana Studies or Critical Social Thought. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFCNA0001 | AFCNA: Africana Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Africana Studies major and/or minor. |
| AFRAM0002 | AFRAM: African American concentration | This course has been approved to count towards the concentration in African American Studies within the African & African-American Studies major and minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought major | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| CST0001 | CSTH: Critical Social Thought minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Critical Social Thought major and minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| AFCNA-308-01 Luminous Darkness/DuBois |
| CST-349LD-01 Luminous Darkness/DuBois |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 15 | Enrollment: 8 | Available: 7 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: the luminous darkness Author: thurman, howard Copyright: 1965 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780944350072 Publisher: friends united press |
Required | 13.00 |
| Title: afropessimism Author: wilderson 3rd, frank Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781324090519 Publisher: liveright |
Required | 17.00 |
| Title: black marxism Author: robinson, cedric Copyright: 1983 Edition: 3 Volume: ISBN: 9781469663722 Publisher: unc press |
Required | 20.00 |
| Title: wayward lives, beautiful experiments Author: hartman, saidiya Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780393357622 Publisher: ww norton |
Required | 18.00 |
| Title: in the wake Author: sharpe, christina Copyright: 2016 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780822362944 Publisher: duke u press |
Required | 18.00 |
| Title: america on fire Author: hinton, elizabeth Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781631498909 Publisher: liveright |
Required | 15.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |